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The 31st Classic Motorcycle Festival at Pukekohe on February 5,6 & 7, 2010 has attracted a group of 14 British riders and bikes, including the top European Classic Racer, Lea Gourlay who will be racing a 1968 Moto-Paton 500. This bike holds the Isle of Man lap record for Classic bikes at over 110 mph and has been bought to New Zealand for the first time by its owner, Roger Winfield. Also racing at Pukekohe will be former Grand Prix stars Paul Smart and Stan Woods, who were both team-mates of Barry Sheene in Team Suzuki in the 1970s. The centenary of the famous Rudge motorcycle will be celebrated with a huge display of both racing and road machines. Before the Second World War Rudge was one of the most popular bikes on the New Zealand market, but sadly the company did not re-start production when peace returned. Included will be the famous ex- factory 1932 Rudge that won an incredible four New Zealand Tourist Trophy races, all held on Waiheke Island in the 1930s. This Rudge was first raced to Grand Prix victory in Europe by Graham Walker, the famous father of Formula One commentator Murray. It was bought to New Zealand by Sid Moses who twice won the NZ TT riding this Rudge. Rudge was famous not only for its high quality but also for pioneering the use of four valves per cylinder and four-speed gearboxes, when most bikes were two valves and three-speeds. The Classic Racing Register has again scored another first with a demonstration by four times World Champion Hugh Anderson of a 1968 V4 Yamaha of only 125cc capacity. The bike is being provided by Dutch enthusiast Ferry Brouwer and was the ‘blue-print’ of the fearsome Grand Prix 500s that ruled Moto GP until the arrival of the four-stroke era in 2002. The water-cooled two-stroke engine revs to over 17,000 rpm and makes 42 bhp. This equates to 336 bhp/litre at a time when Formula One car engines were happy to top 135 bhp/litre. The nine-speed gearbox helped the rider keep the engine in its rather narrow power band. The Yamaha V4 was so successful that Bill Ivy and Phil Read scored a first and second inthe World 125 Championship of 1967 and reversed the result in 1968. Between them they won nearly every GP event in both years. In 1967 Bill Ivy set the first 100 mph lap of the Isle of Man by a 125, only 10 years after that speed had been set by a 500cc Gilera. His lap record on the incredible Yamaha V4 stood for an astounding 21 years. The festival has attracted over 250 riders from five countries, and will be running events for more than 350 bikes. Contact: Norm & Lynda Maddock Ph (09) 422-2638 Ken McIntosh Ph (09) 570-1119
Only $25 for a 3 day Festival pass or $50 for a 3 day family pass. (2 adults & 2 children) Children under 12 FREE.
I'll be there!!!!!!...especially to see the yam..........them classic guys hate the japs so it will be a good laugh
best moment by far at the classic....hearing and watching the Konig? go round....fucking awesome...
self and 6 other are going up on friday to stay the weekend, yearly pilgrimage.
Fylingpoppadile46 Only $25 for a 3 day Festival pass or $50 for a 3 day family pass. (2 adults & 2 children) Children under 12 FREE. So are you going to get me in for free poppa croc?
I'm going on the Sunday, can't spare the whole weekend this year. Will be on the wee Monza. Will text you reprobates when I get there, see if we can't all meet up I may park up by the dug out bleachers in the trees on the bank, like where Motu was last year.
looks like my plan is to take friday off and check out deus for lunch with SWIMBO and then take her out for a look at Puki....then i am ALLOWED back on sunday.......
You can trust me to try my best, not always succeed, but try my best... Let's start with my phone that was pretty much flat and managed one text and a phone call before it died- if only I had taken the BMW I could have charged it up but the Monza beconed me with the promise of sun 'n' corners. Managed to catch up with Volty at the gates, Motu soon after- but lost him a few times because he is so easily distracted and the Headroom's later in the day. Good crowd turn out, missed finding the other BFTP'ers that were around. After all these years of making the Puke Pligramage for the classic festival I never thought to go for a ride in the middle of the day. What a great idea that was because the track is practically at the start of SH22 (where twisty dreams come true) so I dragged Volty and a friend out to the bush block for an interlude. Took one photo, and my camera battery went flat- so Max.. can you post up some of your pics please (other than all the ones of that show pony eh?) Then on the way back to the track I ran out of gas- both the petrol stations on 22 were closed, Volty gave me 3 Mountain Dew bottles from the Drama and I thought if I take it easy I should make it back to the track on that. 5 seconds later I'm fanging it holding back on the gears and riding the lovely cam out of the corners and so I ran out of gas again 15km later so another 2 Dew bottles from the other bike and made it back to the track if anyone else got some pictures- can you please post them up, I always take heaps for inspiration every year and got nothing this time. Cheers
what would a thread be without a dodgydrama....i got about 20 fotos....i have heaps from other years and since a lot of the bikes are the same....decided to save the planet...I was there today...didn't see anyone.....
Sorry cmoore, I had hoped to bump into everyone, jeeze I sweated enough walking around, but like Motu, I get distracted easily too Did you get any of the V4 Yammie? When I was looking at it they had one side fairing and the belly pan off it so I got a good perv at the engine but no camera...
i did but the sides where on........did you hear/see it run??
popping and farting, hence the fairing came off... still a really interesting setup, not pretty under there.
